This is the second of three tutorials going through some interesting effects and transitions I saw recently on the How To channel (read more)

I am a relative newcomer to Media Composer (early 2008) and as I began to feel my way around I got the idea of documenting my adventures by creating short video tutorials, Avid had already a large number of excellent, professionally produced tutorials online. I learned very much from watching them. However... (read more)

I guess that because there are already two text tools in MC the Text Tool in AvidFX is often overlooked. When it is not overlooked I imagine that many newcomers are, like I was, intimidated by the interface. In actual fact, as long as you don't try running before you learn to walk the basics of the... (read more)

The seventh in a series of tutorials created to assist Avid/Pinnacle Liquid users who are considering migrating to Media Composer. Many newcomers, myself included, come to MC with an HDV camera and capture through a firewire card. Then the first time they try to export a QT-reference file, up pops the... (read more)

I have seen threads started by users who have problems when using Title Tool or SubCaps. If they are working in more than one language and they try to change languages MC will quite often "hang". I recently received a tip from Mr. Egawa of Avid Technology in Japan about a setting in Windows... (read more)

In this episode, we use the Animatte effect to create an isolation so a colour effect can be applied to only a part of the scene http://community.avid.com/forums/p/65284/365707.aspx#365707 (read more)

Tutorial on exporting audio from within Avid Media Composer to a third party audio editor (in this instance I use SoundForge) then after editing re-importing the file into MC - ensuring that the audio is "glitch free". (read more)